Section 62 (1) of the Animal Products (Ancillary and Transitional Provisions) Act 1999, provides that:
"No person may use any drug, substance, or mixture of substances for the prevention or treatment of any disease in bees, other than a drug for the time being approved for that purpose pursuant to subsection (2)."
Section 62 (2) of the Animal Products (Ancillary and Transitional Provisions) Act 1999, provides that:
"The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the New Zealand Gazette, approve the use, subject to
such conditions as the Minister specifies, of any specified drug for the prevention or treatment of
any specified disease."
Pursuant to section 62 of the Animal Products (Ancillary and Transitional Provisions) Act 1999, I approve the use of the compound "Formic Acid 85%" for the prevention or treatment of varroa (Varroa Jacobsoni) subject to the following conditions:
? The product must be used in compliance with the Code of Practice for own use of substances approved
under section 28 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997, and until such time
as that Code is approved, in compliance with the Proposed Code of Practice for own use of substances published in the February 2002 edition of AgVetLink (a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry publication).
? Use must be limited to periods when honey supers are not present on the hives.
Dated at Wellington this 6th day of March 2002.
PAUL SWAIN, for Jim Sutton, Minister of Agriculture.